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Visit TSO soon and see. *Plastic lenses are impact resistant but not unbreakable. Associated Doctors of Optometry California Votes On Pot SAN FRANCISCO (AFS) — California is shortly to become the first state to vote on mari juana. During the Nov. 7 election, the state’s voters will be asked to decide on a proposal to remove criminal penalties for anyone 18 or older for “planting, cultivating, harvesting, drying, processing, otherwise preparing, transporting or possessing marijuana for per sonal use.” The measure also pro hibits “persons under the influ ence of marijuana from engaging in conduct that endangers others.” Selling would remain illegal. That’s it. Otherwise, you’ll be able to grow your own in Cali fornia. If it passes. An early Septem ber poll showed only 33 per cent support for the Califoi-nia Mari juana Initiative (CMI). There is strong support for the measure in northern California, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, but half the state’s 20 million population is concentrated in highly conservative Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange counties. CMI’s organizers, a loose col lection of lawyers, doctors, drug experts and other volunteers, think the outcome is still uncer tain. Gordon Brownell, the Initia tive’s political coordinator, be lieves the polls don’t accurately represent popular opinion on marijuana. “A lot of people who will vote for the measure don’t want to say so to interviewers,” Davis Gives Archeological Presentation Dr. E. Mott Davis, president of the Texas Archeological Society, will take an A&M audience on a classical Roman excavation Thursday night. The associate professor of an thropology at the University of Texas-Austin, will use slides to show how classical archeology and anthropological archeology are joining forces to unravel the se crets of an ancient civilization. His free lecture and slide pres entation will start at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the auditorium of the Zachry Engineering Center. It is open to the public. Dr. Davis has more than 26 years of experience in American Indian archeology, 1G years of the time in Texas. In the last few years he has worked at the site of the provincial Roman city of Stobi in Yugoslavian Macedonia. Stobi was a civic and ceremonial center for nearly 1000 years be fore it went out of existence around A.D. GOO. The reasons for the death of the city have been a mystery since other Roman cities in the area are still thriv ing. The investigation of this mystery is one of the interesting stories to be told by Dr. Davis. At Stobi, Dr. Davis found many artifacts which reflect upon the culture and life styles of the an cient Romans. In addition, the excavations revealed numerous architectural remains including residential, theatrical and ceme tery areas. The research led to a better understanding of Roman culture as it existed in Yugo slavia. he says. CMI is counting on the so-far unrevealed support they’re sure is out there. Win or lose, the Marijuana Ini tiative has already made an im pressive showing. In four months, its 20,000 volunteers collected 380,000 valid signatures, 50,000 more than the minimum needed to put the measure on the ballot. CMI has also gained endorse ments from a wide variety of or ganizations, including the Cali fornia and San Francisco Bar As sociations, the Democratic Central Committees of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento, the ACLU, the San Francisco Deputy Sheiffs’ Coalition and the San Francisco Police Officers for Justice. All of this was done with very little money. Of the estimated $40,000 spent to get the measure on the ballot, most came from small contributions. The largest single source of funds, approxi mately $15,000, has been Amor- phia, a non-profit cooperative working for reform of marijuana laws. Amorphia raises its money by selling cigarette papers under the brand name “Acapulco Gold.” The papers are distributed nationally and billed as “the only papers made from pure hemp fiber from marijuana stalks.” In the year ending May 1, Amorphia had gross sales of $100,000 from the papers. Amorphia’s activities have not been limited to California. It was active in the unsuccessful efforts to qualify marijuana reform ini tiatives in Washington, Oregon, Arizona and Michigan. Michael Aldrich, Amorphia’s coordinator and editor of The Marijuana Review, believes what is happening now in California will have tremendous impact on the rest of the country. “Twenty states now have the initiative as a means for changing the law,” he says. “Marijuana could be on the ballot in 10 or 12 of them in the next few years. And the issue has wider appeal than most people think.” CMI’s Brownell echoes Ald rich’s thoughts. “Even if we don’t win, it will still be a victory. We took a so-called ‘freak issue,’ (smoking pot) and legitimized it. We put it before the public and won endorsements. If we don’t make it this year, it will be an issue again in ’74. It will come of age eventually.” As California goes . . . ? FLOWERS AND A FLAG help decorate a memorial to A&M war dead in Veteran’s Day Ceremonies. TAMU Sports Car Club Plans Rallies, Autocross I |j 11 Three upcoming events are planned by the A&M Sports Car Club, which will meet Wednesday at the old College Station City Hall. A Sunday autocross will be for members only, announced club president Kerry Bonner. Jim Forte will manage the event. Drivers may qualify for the autocross by joining at the Wed nesday meeting. It will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Mimosa Room of the old City Hall, 110 Church St. A night rally Nov. 3 and a Nov. 19 autocross at Texas World Speedway will be open to all in terested drivers. Entry fees of $2 and $10, respectively, will be charged. Spectators are admitted free to all events, Bonner said. An autocross is an automotive event in which a car at a time races the clock. Different types of cars compete in assigned classes. In a rally, a team, including a driver and navigator, attempts to negotiate a prescribed route in specified time, obeying all traffic rules and fulfilling certain re quirements. Each team must sup ply its own watch, flashlight and pencils, with the TAMSCC pro viding the route map. W “-p. / n> ' MstZAs Blues Are Supreme B.B. KING In Concert A TAMU SPECIAL ATTRACTION Everyone buys a ticket FRIDAY NOV. 3-8:00 P.M. G. ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM Reserved Seats $3.50 A&M Student & Date $1.75 Other Students $2.50 Patrons $3.00 Get Tickets & Information at Student Program Office 845-4671 > TAMU 4 Town Hall mi